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Ann Louise Nixon Cooper (January 9, 1902 – December 21, 2009) was a centenarian best known for being invoked in United States President-elect Barack Obama's November 2008 election speech as someone who had witnessed "the struggle and the progress" of the past century, and as a representative of the change in status African-Americans and women ...
Ann Cooper was a civic leader and activist who witnessed the African American experience from the 20th to the 21st century. She was honored by President Obama in his 2008 election speech and interviewed by The HistoryMakers in 2004.
Dec 23, 2009 · Ann Nixon Cooper, the centenarian lauded by President Obama last year in his election night speech as someone who had witnessed “the heartbreak and the hope” of the past century, died Monday in...
Dec 22, 2009 · She started the first black Boy Scout troop in Atlanta, founded several book clubs (and still participated in one until last year), taught fitness classes to senior citizens younger than...
Dec 21, 2009 · Ann Nixon Cooper, the Atlanta centenarian whose name Barack Obama invoked in his post-election speech as a symbol of America's struggles and progress, died Monday. She was 107.
Dec 22, 2009 · Ann Nixon Cooper, who then president-elect Barack Obama noted last year had lived long enough to know both "the heartache" of being denied the right to vote and "the hope" of seeing him...
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Dec 22, 2009 · Ann Nixon Cooper, the 107-year-old Atlanta woman whose name President. Barack Obama invoked when he gave his historic election speech last year, died Monday afternoon. Published by...
